The
Daily Beast reports that Clinton SuperPac
“Correct the Record” is openly admitting to spending
$1 million to hire fake online Hillary supporters to
swarm social media sites like Reddit and counteract
Sanders' [actually existent unpaid] enthusiastic
supporters' points about Hillary in the interest of
“unity”. Barf.

Couple
quick things: first, there have been a number of
diaries claiming to “have switched from Bernie to
Hillary” lately, and some of them have been from
recently created accounts with no record of
pro-Sanders remarks or diaries. More such people have
populated the comment sections of such diaries, and
someone is reccing them despite what I judge to be
their incredible lack of helpful
information. That is just a fact, and my opinion
about said fact. Second, if one wanted to make
the case that there were a vast Clintonian conspiracy
behind that rash of new accounts and diaries, this is
certainly what one might consider corroborating
evidence. Note the SuperPac has already spent $4.5
million on God knows what. So let's be honest this
could have been already happenening, and now they
believe they have more or less locked up the
nomination and so are getting more belligerent/open
about it. Third, note that Sanders-supporting diaries
tend to still dominate the rec list day in, day out,
and that Sanders has no Super Pac. We are on to your
presumptive corporate shilling, in other words. Not
that we can prove it. What I'm saying is that this is
why I have donated so much money to Bernie, because he
is a candidate whose message, strategy and tactics are
all above board. I.e. What they appear to be. He
has gotten this far without steroids. Paid
or not, Clinton supporters are welcome aboard.

Citing
“lessons learned from online engagement with
‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is
pledging to spend $1 million to “push back
against” users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and
Instagram.

Correct
the Record’s “Barrier Breakers” project boasts in
a press release that it has already “addressed
more than 5,000 people that have personally
attacked Hillary Clinton on Twitter.” The PAC
released this on Thursday.

The PAC was
created in May of last year when it was spun off
from the American Bridge SuperPAC, which is run
by longtime Hillary and Bill Clinton supporter
David Brock. Brock also founded the left-wing
media watchdog website Media Matters for
America.

Some
Bernie Sanders-supporting users on Reddit
already started to notice the changes on
Thursday afternoon.

“This
explains why my inbox turned to cancer on
Tuesday,” wrote
user OKarizee. “Been a member of reddit
for almost 4 years and never experienced
anything like it. In fact, in all my years on
the internet I’ve never experienced anything
like it.”

Correct the
Record, which has received $5 million this
campaign season and has spent almost $4.5
million of it, according to OpenSecrets.org, outlined its
strategy against “swarms of anonymous
attackers” in a press release.

Update:
if you want a case in point, look at the diary
smearing Dr. Jane Sanders that's on the Rec list,
and then look at the date the diarist joined.

Update
2: I give you exhibit B Attack diary on Dr. Jane
Sanders by a diarist who joined almost a week ago.
Note that I can't PROVE this diarist is a paid troll,
nor am I ACCUSING, simply pointing out what a clear
pattern is occuring here. www.dailykos.com/...

Lessons
learned from online engagement with “Bernie
Bros” during the Democratic Primary will be
applied to the rest of the primary
season and general election–responding
quickly and forcefully to negative attacks
and false narratives. Additionally, as the
general election approaches, thetask
force will begin to push out information
to Sanders supporters online, encouraging
them to support Hillary Clinton.

Its
latest FEC Financial Summary shows just how
outrageous campaign spending has become. In
the nine months since starting his candidacy,
Sanders has accumulated $96,311,423 in
“Receipts” (contributions). However, running
for the president’s job is costly – Bernie
2016 reports a whopping $81,649,471 in
“Disbursements” (expenses).

There
are the usual items: staff salaries, rent,
airfare, hotel rooms,sound equipment, credit
cards, catering, food (lots of pizza), office
supplies, ad buys, software, computers, train
rides, port-a-potties, internet service,
security and at least one limousine rental.
You name it, you’ll likely find it. After all,
it take a village to run a campaign.

Revolution
Messaging consumed twenty percent of those
disbursements (see table below). Its
services through the end of January have
cost Bernie Sanders over $16 million. The
biggest chunk came during that month and
totaled nearly $7 million.